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Announcing FoldAwareColumn in Accompanist Adaptive

June 22, 2023 Jun 22, 2023 06/22/23

Hello Jetpack Compose developers, This week, we’re super excited to announce the release of ! This new component is part of Accompanist, Google’s “sandbox” for experimental Jetpack Compose APIs. The Accompanist Adaptive library already contains the component, which we tested out late last year, so will be the second ...

droidcon New York and London

December 1, 2022 Dec 1, 2022 12/1/22

John Wiese, Kristen Halper, Parker Schroeder

Hello Android developers! It has been great to see the community face-to-face at droidcon events around the world in 2022. The Surface Duo team really enjoyed meeting folks, presenting, and discussing foldable app development face-to-face. If you didn’t make it to an event (or if you did but want to re-live it) more sessions are ...

Activity Embedding preview for large screens and foldables

November 3, 2022 Nov 3, 2022 11/3/22

Cesar Valiente

Hello Android developers, The Jetpack Window Manager (JWM) library helps you build adaptive UIs that work well on any device form factor (i.e. single screen, dual screen, foldable, and large screen devices). Jetpack Window Manager provides you with the information that you need to adapt your app’s UI, so it works well on any device...

Android 12L for developers on Surface Duo

October 27, 2022 Oct 27, 2022 10/27/22

Guy Merin

Hello Android developers! We're excited to see that Android 12L is being rolled out to Surface Duo devices, and equally keen to see what the Android developer community builds to support it. Android 12L for foldable app developers The good news for developers is that dual-screen APIs have not changed and foldable app ...

Jetpack Compose Accompanist TwoPane

September 22, 2022 Sep 22, 2022 09/22/22

Kristen Halper

Hello Compose developers! This week, we’d like to talk about the TwoPane layout from Google’s Accompanist Adaptive library! Not to be confused with our own Microsoft Compose SDK TwoPaneLayout component, TwoPane from Accompanist is a fold-aware UI component that works great for cases when you always want to show two pieces...

droidcon Berlin and Surface Duo video collection

August 18, 2022 Aug 18, 2022 08/18/22

Cesar Valiente

Hello Android developers! This week we were inspired by a forum question about interesting Surface Duo media content and provide a variety of different video and audio resources where you can learn more about Surface Duo, foldable devices, and dual-screen Android app development! If you want to chat in person, we’ll also be at ...

Test Kit Annotations update

August 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022 08/11/22

Andrei Cirja

Hello Android developers! We are excited to announce an update for the foldable Test Kit library. Test Kit provides utility methods and classes that help you write instrumented tests for large screen and foldable devices. This update adds annotations which are useful for creating tests for one posture at a time. Now, instead of ...

Making a gamepad for my Flutter game

August 4, 2022 Aug 4, 2022 08/4/22

Andrei Diaconu

Did you know that building games in Flutter is just as easy as building apps? There is even a game engine built on top of it called Flame. Today we are first going to explore building a simple game with Flame and then enhance the game for dual-screen and foldable devices. This space themed game will use an on-screen gamepad controller as ...

droidcon San Francisco recap

July 21, 2022 Jul 21, 2022 07/21/22

Joy Liu

Hello Android developers, Earlier this year the Surface Duo team attended our first in-person conference for the year at droidcon in San Francisco! It was great to meet Android developers from all over the world, demonstrate the features of Surface Duo, and chat about building apps for foldable and large screen devices. We’...

Source Editor & Diary samples for Jetpack Compose

July 14, 2022 Jul 14, 2022 07/14/22

Unmesh Padhye

Hello Jetpack Compose developers! We have two exciting new Jetpack Compose samples for Surface Duo to share with you. The first one, called Source Editor, was previously published, but we migrated it to take advantage of Jetpack Compose. The second one is a Diary application that demonstrates using Android Views components with ...

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